Blair: Forgotten But Not Gone
Having dragged Britain into war, former Prime Minister Tony Blair is now touting his services as a peace-dealer in the middle east. With Christmas on the way, no wonder he's looking crazier than ever before
Eamonn McCann, 11 Dec 2008
Xmas in the Holy Land, not to mention Tony Blair.
He’s looking even madder these days, is Blair – the other eye, too, beginning to swivel in its socket.
Has he been maddened by memory of his slaughter of the Iraqi first-born?
Maybe he’s demented from fear that his security guys will waste him.
Blair has top-range security not only because friends of his victims might be out for revenge, but on account of his current Middle East role. He represents the Gang of Four – the US, the UN, the EU and Russia – in supposedly pushing for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. He operates from offices in (no, really) Jerusalem’s American Colonial Hotel.
Sending Blair to negotiate a settlement between Palestine and Israel is like asking Judas to broker a deal between Jesus and the Romans.
The Guardian reports that one of Blair’s minders recently thought to test his gun as he boarded a ‘plane at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport (named after the notorious racist), causing the weapon to go off with a loud bang and triggering pandemonium. The official inquiry continues.
This was no mere once-off faux pas. In September last year, a new bullet-proof (so they think) BMW bought for Blair had to be returned from the docks in London to the factory in Munich after four asylum-seekers jumped out when the container was opened.
In May, a squadron of fighter-jets was scrambled when Blair’s private ‘plane flew into Israeli airspace without notice or authorisation. The New York Times says the fighters came “within seconds” of opening fire on the intruder.
September last, the senior firearms officer of Blair’s security detail was driving up the Edgware Road when, caught short, she hurriedly parked and dashed into the toilet of a branch of Starbucks. Twenty minutes later, a customer using the same cubicle found the gun – a Glock 17 semi-automatic, its 19-round magazine fully loaded – which code-name Annie Oakley had somehow let slip when loosening her belt.
We might reasonably speculate, then, that Blair’s madness is related to security concerns.
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